Stories from Alarm Clock
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Uber's $32M Round to Take On Taxi Cartel
Alarm Clock &bull Dec 7, 2011
We see a lot of eye-browsed raised by Uber's $32M round led by Menlo Ventures, Jeff Bezos and Goldman Sachs who followed existing investor Benchmark Capital and angel investors. We have heard nothing but rave reviews from Uber's clients. Sure… Full Story »
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Social Travel's Trippy Raises $1.75M
Alarm Clock &bull Nov 15, 2011
There seems to be a convergence of investors and founders in the social travel space. It looks like many of the founders got here because they were traveling in between jobs, while investors know that the online travel space can… Full Story »
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Zynga Doucheville
Alarm Clock &bull Nov 11, 2011
We were sitting around a table yesterday working with a dozen San Francisco engineers and tech workers when the Zynga came up. Everyone had read about reports that Zynga had given an ultimatum to early employees to cough up shares… Full Story »
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Kaggle Raises $11M For Crowdsourced Analytical Competitions
Alarm Clock &bull Nov 3, 2011
San Francisco-based Kaggle has raised $11M in series A led by Index Ventures and Khosla Ventures. Stanford University's endownment, PayPal co-founder Max Levchin, Google chief economist Hal Varian and Applied Semantics' co-founder Gil Elbaz. Kaggle joins the crowd-sourcing field, and… Full Story »
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Appcelerator Goes Full Throttle With $15M Series C
Alarm Clock &bull Nov 1, 2011
The rapid development of apps continues to be a darling of VCs as Appcelerator announced today they have raised $15 million in their Series C round. The latest round almost doubles the amount the company raised in its previous two… Full Story »
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Dashboard Creation's Chart.io Raises $3.15M
Alarm Clock &bull Oct 31, 2011
San Francisco-based Chart.io has raised $3.15M in a Series A funding led by Avalon Ventures with Bullpen Capital. The company has raised $4.38M to date. The company has built a connector to MySQL so that companies can easily create real-time… Full Story »
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Topics:
- Avalon Ventures
- A Round
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Code Academy Raises $2.5M For Free Coding Lessons
Alarm Clock &bull Oct 28, 2011
Chicago-based Code Academy has raised $2.5M in Series A from Union Square Ventures, O'Reilly, SV Angel, Yuri Milner, Social+Capital Partnership, Thrive Capital, CrunchFund, Collaborative Fund, Founder Collective, Joshua Schacter, Vivi Nevo, Naval Ravikant and others. As you would expect by… Full Story »
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Celebrity eCommerce's OpenSky Raises $30M
Alarm Clock &bull Oct 25, 2011
NYC-based eCommerce site OpenSky has raised $30M in fresh capital to continue building out the business. Just 6 months old, OpenSky is on a fund-raising tear having previously raised $19M in two prior rounds. New investor Providence Equity Partners led… Full Story »
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Coverage Round-up: DropBox's $250M Round
Alarm Clock &bull Oct 18, 2011
Dropbox has raised a $250M round at a $4B valuation. The story has he media excited, in particular because of the side story that Steve Jobs and Apple tried to buy Dropbox for its iCloud but the startup passed on… Full Story »
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Blog Platform Tumblr Raises $85M
Alarm Clock &bull Sep 26, 2011
NYC-based Tumlbr has aised $85M led by Greylock Partners and Insight Venture Partners, with the Chernin Group, Richard Branson, Spark Capital, Union Square Ventures and Sequoia Capital. Prior to this Tumblr had raised around $40M in funding. For investors, Tumbrl… Full Story »
